The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-03
Farm Notes.

Some hens have pecuiarities in their tastes
Feed q variety of food SO as to suit all or else
kill the hen.
Dead or decaying fruit trees should be removed
at once from your fields and orchards and burnt
up without delay. Many injurious insects will
thereby be destroyed.
Catnip is one of the most valuable plants for
bees. The flowers are rich in honey, and for
several months, commencing with June of each
year. yield it freely at all hours and every kind
of weather.
Whitewashing for the cleansing of the hen
house should be performed at least twice every
year. Apply the brush vigorously. Use plenty
of whitewash and pay special attention to the
corners and crevices.
last almost forever The principal condition
for with this plant is to give it plenty of
room; distance of four feet each way is found
best for field culture. In the garden single
row is preferable. with plants two feet apart, to
planting in single beds.
A few crab apple trees ought to find place on
every farm. They are hardy; will grow almost
anywhere; they will bear abundantly in Two or
three years, and, a rule, will bear every year;
they are fine for cider, and several varieties are
excellent for desert. They are valuable for
canning or preserving.
Peter Henderson, believing that the cabbage
fly 1.-THE parent of the cabbage msegotl is at
tracted to the cabbage roots by the scent of the
manure, is going to try cotton seed meal which
is odorless, fertilizer, and thinks he may be
able to outwit the fly and thus secure exemption
from the ravages OF its progeny. the maggot.
Tomatoes raised in light, rather poor soil. in a
sheltered or warm situation. are always sweet
in favorable seasons. while those raised in rich
soil or in partial shade are always sour. A rank
growth of foliage shades the fruit densely and
interferes with the development of the saccharne
principle. Again, tomatoes raised in poorsh.
light soil ripen ten days earlier than those raised
in rich soil
Rhubarb will also yield a crop for many years,
but in most cases it better to take up the plants
and make new bed every six or eight years To
have large, crisp stalks, cover each clump with
two or three forkfulls of stable manure after the
ground freezes in the fall Horse-radsh in the
family garden is generally left to take care of
itself, but if frstclass roots are desired 1t should
be treated like an annual and repanted every
spring.
Philadelphia Record: While it is urged that
farmers should give greater attention to the
production of a larger proportion of lean meat IN
hogs, the fact remains that they can get e better
price for lard than for lean which will always
prompt them to have the hogs as fat possible
before killing Another fact is that fat can be
produced at a smaller cost than lean while the
hogs sold in fat condition carry away less of
the fertility of the soil than the same weight of
lean.
tected from the ravages of insects by very
cheap and simple device A few torches placed
in the vicinity of the trees vines or shrubs,
lighted at twilight and left to burn hour
two, will destroy thousands OF millers, moths
and rosebugs that would otherwise light and do
mischief He says he has practiceo it for years,
and his trees and shrubbery have not suffered,
while the pests have caused his neigh bors
noyance and loss. 1t will cost very little to try
it. A simple torch, fed by kerosene, so as to
make light and an open flame, is all that is re-
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